![]() One thing that is very nice is that teachers can “ Enter “Student mode” to see how it looks to students. You know, that just makes me feel all warm inside. They also tell you about some cool new features coming soon and that is always helpful to know that a site has a future and is working on improving it. noredink wants you to let you know what you can do which is always helpful. It will work without it!Īs a teacher (and student) you can’t get right to work just yet. One special note is that though it asks for an email address, a student does NOT have to provide one to create an account. Just for the record, students also go through these steps. Then it asks you if you want to connect to Facebook to use your Facebook friends in your questions or you can add names yourself or you can skip this step. This, hopefully, will cause them to read and digest the sentence with a little more attention than just reading about some generic person who they have no connection with. It’s nice that students will see examples about their interests. I can expect to see questions about Superman, Batman, Wolverine, etc. ![]() It asks what your interests are because when you are practicing or making quizzes it will use these interests and tailor the questions to them. The screen looks like this and all you have to do is select the icon. To complete your setup you have to tell noredink what interests you and they give you quite a bit to chose from. The student signup is pretty much the same but it also asks for a Class Invite Code (which is optional at the time of signing up) as you can see below. This site also asks for your real name, gender and school name. This is pretty simple all you need (like most sites we’ve reviewed here) is an email, username and password. I bet you want to know too, am I right? Well wait no further, hit on past the break to see what I think and whether you agree or disagree leave comment below. I wonder if they can make it interesting and not a total snooze fest. I am wondering if noredink cracked the code. OK, that may not be exactly what you’re thinking, but learning grammar is not that exciting (for most of us) and it takes a lot of practice and time. ![]() I know what you’re thinking “ Grammar!? I’d rather grate the side of my face and then dive into a bath of rubbing alcohol!” The website is all about teaching students grammar. ![]() I thought to myself “ Hmmmm-that looks good.” So, I popped right over to and signed up as a teacher. If, for instance, students are to learn the difference between the active and passive voice, they will practice rearranging the sentence three ways to emphasize different parts of the sentence.I was reading Larry Ferlazzo’s blog and saw this. Scheur argues that allowing students to take an active role in editing sentences ultimately helps them to internalize the lessons, which results in better writing all around. It’s one thing to identify that a sentence is lacking in one particular area it’s another to be able to revise it in a way that conveys the author’s point effectively.” “Multiple-choice exercises are easier because they allow students to compare solutions. “One way that traditional exercises have failed is that the exercises themselves aren’t authentic,” Scheur said in an interview. ) He steered clear of multiple-choice questions, instead allowing students to manipulate sentences by dragging and dropping words and punctuation or by actually typing in their own sentence rewrites whenever possible. (Liana Loewus explores the debate over how best to teach grammar in this Education Week article. Scheur created the platform when he was a high school teacher in Chicago to give his students practice with grammar rules that eluded them. The free version focuses more on sentence-level practice, while the more sophisticated paid version allows students to apply what they learned in the exercises to their own writing and then receive peer feedback. One in two school districts uses the free version of the platform to enhance its writing curriculum, according to NoRedInk founder and CEO Jeff Scheur.
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